Good Faith, Bad Faith
The laughably absurd incident during the July 7 Dallas City Hall meeting of commissioners illustrates a lot of what is wrong with discourse today. The meeting received national media coverage because multiple black officials objected on the grounds of “racial insensitivity” to the comparison made by a white commissioner of a dysfunctional office (which routinely lost paperwork) to a “black hole” (a celestial object with gravitational pull so great that neither light nor matter can escape). More »